Pyridine, halo

Fig. 10 The stracture of [bis(pyridine)iodine] complexes utilized in the investigation of the symmetry of three-center halogen bonds in solutions [80-82]. Whereas the [bis(pyridine)halo-gen]" complex allows free adjustment of N- X bond distances and angles, the [bisfpyridiny-lethynyljbenzenejhalogen]" backbone introduces a slight geometric restraint...

Imidazo[4,5-6]pyridine, 1,2-dimethyl-methylation, 5, 618 Imidazo[4,5-6]pyridine, 2,3-diphenyl-synthesis, 5, 636 Imidazo[4,5-6]pyridine, 6-halo-alkylation, 5, 616 aminomethylation, 5, 616 Imidazo[4,5-6]pyridine, 2-(4-hydroxy-6-methylpyrimidin-2-ylamino)-synthesis, 5, 637... 

Until recently, pyridine-type bases have been commonly used to produce conjugated enones from 2-halo ketones yields are usually poor °° and these reactions are frequently accompanied by rearrangement, reduction and salt formation. Thus, Warnhoff found that dehydrobromination of (28) with 2,4-lutidine gave a mixture of (29), (30) and (31) in the ratio 55 25 20. Collidine gave a ratio of 38 25 37, whereas pyridine gave mainly the salt (32). 

The reaction of anilines (R = H, m- and p-CHg, m- and p-halo-geno, W-NO2, P-OCH3, P-OC2H5) with 2-chloro-3-nitro-, 2-chloro-5-nitro-, 2-chloro-3-cyano-5-nitro-, 2-chloro-3-cyano-6-methyl-5-nitro-, and 2-chloro-3-cyano-4,6-dimethyl-5-nitro-pyridines. ... 

There is some indication in pyridines and pyrimidines (113) that, when activation is by a meta azine-nitrogen, iodine and bromine are more reactive than chlorine. In 2-halo-pyridines and -3-... 

The reactivity of 2- and 4-halopyridines toward a variety of nucleophiles is far greater than that of the 3-halo isomers (274), which are nevertheless appreciably activated. The 4-position (cf. 271) is more reactive than the 2-position (cf. 272), except when the specific factors described in Sections II, B and III, A and also below, produce an increase in the reactivity at the 2-position. Pyridine derivatives are the least reactive of the monocyclic azines (cf. Scheme I, p. 266). 

Halopyridines undergo self-quaternization on standing while the less reactive 2-halo isomers do not. However, more is involved here than the relative reactivity at the ring-positions. The reaction rate will depend on the relative riucleophilicity of the attack-ing pyridine-nitrogens (4-chloropyridine is more basic) and on the much lower steric hindrance at the 4-position. Related to this self-quatemization are the reactions of pyridine and picolines as nucleophiles with 4-chloro- and 2-chloro-3-nitropyridines. The 4-isomer (289) is. again the more reactive by 10-30-fold (Table VII, p. 276). 

The rate of amination and of alkoxylation increases 1.5-3-fold for a 10° rise in the temperature of reaction for naphthalenes (Table X, lines 1, 2, 7 and 8), quinolines, isoquinolines, l-halo-2-nitro-naphthalenes, and diazanaphthalenes. The relation of reactivity can vary or be reversed, depending on the temperature at which rates are mathematically or experimentally compared (cf. naphthalene discussion above and Section III,A, 1). For example, the rate ratio of piperidination of 4-chloroquinazoline to that of 1-chloroisoquino-line varies 100-fold over a relatively small temperature range 10 at 20°, and 10 at 100°. The ratio of rates of ethoxylation of 2-chloro-pyridine and 3-chloroisoquinoline is 9 at 140° and 180 at 20°. Comparison of 2-chloro-with 4-chloro-quinoline gives a ratio of 2.1 at 90° and 0.97 at 20° the ratio for 4-chloro-quinoline and -cinnoline is 3200 at 60° and 7300 at 20° and piperidination of 2-chloroquinoline vs. 1-chloroisoquinoline has a rate ratio of 1.0 at 110° and 1.7 at 20°. The change in the rate ratio with temperature will depend on the difference in the heats of activation of the two reactions (Section III,A,1). 

Oxidation of 5-arylazo-6-aminoquinoline 146 with copper sulfate in pyridine gave the corresponding 2-aryltriazolo[4,5-/]quinolines 147. Condensation of halo-genated nitrobenzenes with triazolo[4,5-/]quinoline 145 yielded the appropriate 2H- and 3//-aryl derivatives. The nitration of 3-phenyl-3//-triazolo[4,5-/]quino-line 147 occurred at position 4 of the phenyl ring (Scheme 46) (73T221). 

When diazo ketones are treated with HBr or HCl, they give the respective a-halo ketones, but HI does not give the reaction, since it reduces the product to a methyl ketone (10-87). a-Fluoro ketones can be prepared by addition of the diazo ketone to polyhydrogen fluoride-pyridine. This method is also successful for diazoalkanes. 

HI, or Cdl2 iodofluorination with mixtures of AgF and U and mixtures of N-bromo amides in anhydrous HF give bromofluorination. Bromo-, iodo-, and chlorofluorination have also been achieved by treatment of the substrate with a solution of Br2,12, or an N-halo amide in polyhydrogen fluoride-pyridine while... 

Nitryl chloride (NO2CI) also adds to alkenes, to give p-halo nitro compounds, but this is a free-radical process. The NO2 goes to the less-substituted carbon. Nitryl chloride also adds to triple bonds to give the expected l-nitro-2-chloro alkenes. The compound FNO2 can be added to alkenes by treatment with HF in HNOa or by addition of the alkene to a solution of nitronium tetrafluoroborate (NOJBF4, see 11-2) in 70% polyhydrogen fluoride-pyridine solution (see also 15-37). 

Halo-substituted phthalazines react with two equivalents of ynamines to give penta-substituted pyridines 17 through N-N bond cleavage of the pyridazine ring <96H(43)199>. 

Substituted pyrimidine N-oxides such as 891 are converted analogously into their corresponding 4-substituted 2-cyano pyrimidines 892 and 4-substituted 6-cya-no pyrimidines 893 [18]. Likewise 2,4-substituted pyrimidine N-oxides 894 afford the 2,4-substituted 6-cyano pyrimidines 895 whereas the 2,6-dimethylpyrimidine-N-oxide 896 gives the 2,6-dimethyl-4-cyanopyrimidine 897 [18, 19] (Scheme 7.6). The 4,5-disubstituted pyridine N-oxides 898 are converted into 2-cyano-4,5-disubsti-tuted pyrimidines 899 and 4,5-disubstituted-6-cyano pyrimidines 900 [19] (Scheme 7.6). Whereas with most of the 4,5-substituents in 898 the 6-cyano pyrimidines 900 are formed nearly exclusively, combination of a 4-methoxy substituent with a 5-methoxy, 5-phenyl, 5-methyl, or 5-halo substituent gives rise to the exclusive formation of the 2-cyanopyrimidines 899 [19] (Scheme 7.6). The chemistry of pyrimidine N-oxides has been reviewed [20]. In the pyrazine series, 3-aminopyrazine N-ox-ide 901 affords, with TCS 14, NaCN, and triethylamine in DMF, 3-amino-2-cyano-pyrazine 902 in 80% yield and 5% amidine 903 [21, 22] which is apparently formed by reaction of the amino group in 902 with DMF in the presence of TCS 14 [23] (Scheme 7.7) (cf. also Section 4.2.2). Other 3-substituted pyrazine N-oxides react with 18 under a variety of conditions, e.g. in the presence of ZnBr2 [22]. 

Merck has recently utilised a furo[2,3-b]pyridine core (554) as a bioisosteric replacement for the pyrazole scaffold of rimonabant (382) [328]. The same basic pharmacophore, that of two halo-substituted aryl groups and a third hydrophobic motif proximal to a hydrogen-bond acceptor, can be witnessed in the benzodioxole-based compounds, such as (555), disclosed by Roche [329]. 

Ring contractions of pyran derivatives are occasionally valuable. The contraction of 3-halo-2-pyrones to 2-furoic acids under the influence of alkali has been studied and the conditions defined.58112113 The method is adaptable to the preparation of 3-furoic acid via furan-2,4-dicarboxylic acid58 and of 3,4,5-triphenylfuran-2-carboxylic acid.113 Another ring contraction involving halides is the conversion of 4-chloromethylpyrylium salts into furylmethyl ketones as indicated in Scheme 21.114 Pyridine oxides may be transformed with unexpected ease into furans through treatment with a thiol (Scheme 22).115... 

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